Word: governors
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...support of Big Business is not balanced, critics charge, by compassion for the workers and the poor. Symbolic, they say, was his confrontation with farm workers who were on a 64-day, 468-mile march to Austin in the summer of 1966 to seek a $1.25 minimum wage. Governor Connally drove out to them in his limousine to tell them in person that he was absolutely opposed to their demands and would not meet them in his office. Nevertheless, more than 6,000 marchers did converge on Austin on Labor Day, and Connally was out of town. Says San Antonio...
...discrimination in hotels, restaurants and other public places. He also refused to spend some of Johnson's pet poverty program funds allocated to Texas. The wires between the White House and the Austin statehouse hummed. Johnson at one point badly needed Connally's support for a project but the Governor would not talk to him; the President phoned a startled Congressman Gonzalez at midnight and asked him to persuade the prodigal proteg?...
...Governor James Thompson is being cultivated and allowed to envision himself as a potential Vice President. In April's Wisconsin and Pennsylvania primaries, Connally hopes to take on either
...fishermen are willing to labor longer and for less than their American counterparts, and they fish in far rougher seas and weather. Similarly, a union official in one Chicago factory complained that the Indochinese workers were making the regular employees look bad. "Employers cannot get enough of them," says Governor Robert Ray of Iowa, whose state has accepted nearly 4,000 refugees...
After the war, Mountbatten literally made history: as the last British Viceroy and first Governor-General on the Indian subcontinent, he oversaw the birth of self-government in the Empire's biggest possession, thus breaking ground for the postcolonial era. In 1955 he vindicated his father's name when Churchill appointed him First Sea Lord. Finally, during a six-year stint as chief of the Defense Staff, he built Britain's unified defense system, which he regarded as one of his major triumphs...